Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-03-26

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When we come to the New industrial
south the change is marvellous and so vast
and various that scarcely know where h.
begin IN short paper that cannot 90 much
INTO details. Instead off South devoted 10
agriculture and politics, we find south
wide-awake TO business, excited and even
astonished at the development of IT, own
immense resources in metals, marble eoal
timber, fertilizers eagerly laying lines OF
communication, rapidly opening mines
building furnaces founderes, and ali sorts
OF shops for utilising the native riches.
II is like the discovery of a new world.
When the .northerner finds great folln-
deries IN Virginia using only with
slight exceptions) the products Of
Virginia iron aud coal mines; when ne finds
Alabama AMI Tennessee making iron No
good and so cheap that il finds ready market
IN Pennsylvania, and foundries multiplving
near the great furnaces for supplying north.
ern markets when he finds cotton-mills
running TO full capacity on grades of cheap
cottons universally in demand Throughout
the south and Southwest; when he finds
small industries, such as paper box factories
and wooden bucket and tub factories. send.
ing all they can make into the North and
widely over the West; when he sees the
load OF most beautiful marbles shipped
North; when he learns that some OF the
largest and most important engines and
mill machinery were made in southern
shops; when he finds in Richmond a spoIe
locomotive, made to run on logs laid end
TO end. and drag out from Michigan forests
and southern swamps lumber hitherto mac
eessioie when he sees WORKOUT highlands
in Georgia and Carolina bear more cotton
than ever before by help Of a fertilizer the
base OF which is the cotton seed itself fworth
more as fertilizer than it was before the OH
was extracted from it,; when he sees null
titude OF small shops giving employment TO
men, women and children who never had
any work Of that sort to do before. and
when hesees Roanoke iron cast in Richmond
into car irons, and returned to a car factory
IN Roanoke which last year sold
three hundred cars TO the New York and
New England railroad--he begins to omen
his eyes. The South is manufacturing a
great variety Of things needed in the house
on the farm and IN the shops for home con-
sumption, and already sends 10 the North
and West several manufactured products.
WITH IRON, coal, timber contiguous and east
ly obtained, the amount sent out Is certain
TO increase as the labor becomes more skill
fui. The most striking industrial develop
ment to-day is in iron, coal, lumber and
marbles the more encouraging for the self
sustaining life Of the southern people is the
multiplication Of small industries In nearly
every city visited hdrles Dudley Warner
IN Harper's Magazine for March.
Says st. Lonis barber "Wheu | was
out West some years had Wild Bill and
Texas Jack for customers. They used TO
come in four times a day for head-dress.
and The amount of attention they layished
on their locks would have put a modern
woman Of fashion TO blush. Offs, ointments
and costly perfumes were ordered, and
whenever their hair was concerned they
spared no expense for they were the border
beauties Of their day. Both men died young
with their boots on. and at their funerals
there were hundreds Of broken-hearted,
though frail, females, whose affections had
been captured by those long, glossy tresses.i
Bill Bunal0'st steers 70 John Bull With noise
VI whooping braves, tomahawks, sqasws
and the rest;
siIl barriers his redskins for John's yellow
boys,
And the East sul 60 wnd over cOdy.s VIVA
Weet
-Iopm Tepies.